http://www.onnnews.com/Global/story.asp?S=2851362 The bill requires that offices have written public records policies and bans officials from limiting the availability of records by asking the name of the person requesting information or what the information will be used for. The Virtual Chase

http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/open/ A Web user visits a site such as Yahoo! Search or Google and enters a search phrase that matches the title of a library-owned item. The returned search results include a link to the Open WorldCat "Find in a Library" interface, where they can enter geographic information that helps them locate the item at a library in their city, region or country. lii.org

http://www.mailinater.com/mailinator/Welcome.do No signup, instant anti-spam service. Here is how it works: You are on the web, at a party, or talking to your favorite insurance salesman. Wherever you are, someone (or some webpage) asks for your email. You know if you give it, you're gambling with your privacy. On the other hand, you do want at least one message from that person. The answer is to give them a mailinator address. You don't need to sign-up. You just make it up on the spot. Pick jonesy@mailinator.com or bipster@mailinator.com - pick anything you want (up to 15 characters before the @ sign). Later, come to this site and check that account. Its that easy. Zillman

http://www.coastal.edu/library/presentations/mills2.html "These are business sites, they exist for one purpose, to make money off you. They don't care about your grades, your integrity, or your problems, despite their assurances to the contrary. They want your cash or credit cards. Caveat Emptor (Let the Buyer Beware)." ResourceShelf

http://www.alibris.com/about/press_releases/011705.cfm The Alibris system will make one of the world's broadest selections of books available to Interlibrary Loan (ILL) librarians for purchase-everything from today's best selling fiction to yesterday's obscure, out-of-print scholarly treatise. ResourceShelf

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/01/05/dont_close_the_book_on_libraries/ Librarians truly are the "ultimate search engine," an incredibly knowledgeable human resource far more responsive and interactive than virtual commercial ones. Combine library staff with the services libraries provide -- including free loans of books, music, and videos; free Internet and e-mail service; computer classes; and free adult literacy, GED, and SAT prep classes -- and the value of the public library cannot be overestimated. Library Link of the Day

http://www.freefulltext.com/ Direct links to over 7000 scholarly periodicals which allow some or all of their online content to be viewed by ANYONE with Internet access for free (though some may require free registration). What's Hot on the Internet This Week

http://www.ohiocenterforthebook.org/ Ohio Center for the Book at Cleveland Public Library promotes books, reading, libraries, literacy and authorship throughout Ohio with a special emphasis on Ohio's literary heritage. Scout Report

http://www.objectgraph.com/dictionary/ The data comes from a freely available online dictionary (a public domain English word list dictionary, based on the public domain portion of "The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary" which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. ResearchBuzz

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http://www.indeed.com/ Indeed enables you to search millions of jobs across all career fields – jobs that are listed on job boards, newspaper sites, and niche sites. In one simple search, you can find the very latest job listings throughout the web. Zillman

http://online.onetcenter.org/ O*NET, the Occupational Information Network, is a comprehensive database of worker attributes and job characteristics. As the replacement for the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT), O*NET will be the nation's primary source of occupational information. Zillman

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6761704 A man who boasted to reporters around the world that his Web site allowed strangers to turn his outdoor Christmas lights off and on admitted Monday it was an elaborate hoax designed, he said, to spread holiday cheer. ResourceShelf

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.01/topsite.html Anathema is a so-called topsite, one of 30 or so underground, highly secretive servers where nearly all of the unlicensed music, movies, and videogames available on the Internet originate. Outside of a pirate elite and the Feds who track them, few know that topsites exist. Even fewer can log in. Blogdex

http://www.myrateplan.com/ "Myrateplan.com launched on October 20, 1999 with the most sophisticated and comprehensive rate calculator for wireless plans available anywhere on the Internet. We have since added content in many other service areas, including Long Distance, Travel, Satellite TV, and Credit Cards." Scout Report

http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html Based on billions of searches conducted by Google users around the world, the 2004 Year-End Zeitgeist offers a unique perspective on the year's major events and trends. lii.org

http://www.ag.state.oh.us/site_map/id_theft.htm Ohio's IDENTITY THEFT VERIFICATION PASSPORT program provides identity theft victims a method of establishing that their identity has been stolen, and to begin rehabilitating their credit history and identifying any fraudulent criminal charges. Columbus Dispatch